Game runs too fast?

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Hello all.

I'm new to this forums, but I'm also new to Icewind Dale 2 game.

Yesterday I bought ID2 and I installed it.
First thing I noticed (after game started, after party creation menu)was speed of game... My characters move very fast... too fast I'd say.
Everything move too fast. Second thing I noticed was when I saved game after 5minutes of gameplay. SaveGame menu told me something like: 11hours. As I remember from other games this should mean how long do I play game. But I played only 5minutes, and it show 11hours? That's the second thing what makes me think: game runs too fast.

My PC config is:
AMD 2x 64 4400+, 2GB DDRAM, nVidia GF7800GTX... I'm not sure... Maybe my PC is too fast for so old game? Or maybe I need to change some settings.

Does anyone of you had any problems like that?

Thanks and cya.

 

Run your IWD 2 Configuration. (find itrogram Files-Black Isle-Iwd2) And look at your frame rate. 30 updates per second is normal. If it is 50-60, game runs too fast. This could be your problem. Set it to 30 or lower; restart your game, and tell us if it works. Hopefully this will work, if not, I have no clue.

 

In addition, when you save it is game-time NOT real-time. I think the Prologue starts at 8 hours anyway.
The manual states "a game day (representing 24 hours in the game) is just over 2 hours in real time".

3 hours in 5 minutes is a little quick though!

 

I feel compelled to highjack this thread.

In 3E, a combat round is six seconds. So you can attack once (or more at higher levels) every six seconds. IWD2 seems to follow this reasonably closely in real-time. *But* the "hours" in the globe go by much faster than real-time. Like DaRock said, they seem to be ten or twelve times as fast. This leaves me to conclude that, despite what the game says, a round in IWD2-world is actually 60 seconds, like it was in 2E.

 

Spell casting, attacks and all the rest work within the six second round in IWDII, same as with BG.

 

Ok, thanks guys. I'll check the thing with FPS as soon as I get home.

cya

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[-hitman-]


EDIT:

Ok. I set FPS to 30 and it works fine.
Thanks a lot.
But one thing is strange... If 30fps is default - why I had 60fps in settings? Only I use this PC ;/

Maybe I was so stupid to max it from 30 to 60...
omg ;/

Heheh. Again - Thanks a lot. It all works fine now. I'm very very happy.

[ September 14, 2006, 20:00: Message edited by: [-hitman-] ]

 

Decados, six seconds in real time, but more like 60 seconds of globe-time.

 

No problem, glad to be of help. Should you need to ask anything about the game in the future, we will be here and happy to offer help. See you around!

 

Ah JT, I see what you are getting at now. Fair enough.